2 ELECTIVE AFFINITIES. A Novel. TBISIUTD) lAOXTU OEUXAS W fIOItHE. PART 11. CHAPTER I. There often happens to us in common life what, in an epic poem, we are accus tomed to praise as a stroke of art In the poet; namely, that when the chief figures go off the scene, conceal themselves or retire into inactivity, some other or oth ers, who hitherto we have scarcely ob served, come forward and fill their places. And these patting out all their force, at once fix oar attention and sympathy on themselves, and earn our praise and ad* miration. - Thus, alter the Captain and Edward were gone, the Architect, of whom we have spoken, appeared every day of a more important person. The and executing*©! a, number of undertak ings depended -entirely upon him, and he proved himself thoroughly understanding and business-like in the sty Win which he went to work; while in a number of oth er ways he was able also to make himself of assistance to the ladies, and -find amusement for their weary hours. His outward air and appearance were of the kind which win confidence and awake af fecticyi. A youth in the full sense of the word, well formed, tall perhaps a little too stout; modest without being timid, and easy without being obtrusive, there was no work and no trouble which he was not delighted to take upon himself; and as he could keep accounts with great facility, the whole economy of the house hold soon was no secret to him, and eve rywhere his salutary influence made it self felt. Any stranger who came he was commonly set to entertain, and he was skillful either at declining-unexpected vis its, or al least so far preparing the ladles for them as to spare them any disagreea bleness. S;. Among oibhre; he had one day no little tronble with a yonng lawyer, who had been sent by a neighboring nobleman to speak about a matter which, although of no particular moment, yet touched Char lotte to the quick.- We have to mention this Incident, because it gave occasion for a number ot things which bfherwise might perhaps have remained long un touched. We remember certain alterations Char lotte bad made Jn the churchyard. The entire body of the monuments had been removed from their places, and had been ranged along the walls of the church, leaning against the string-course. The remaining space had been leveled, except a broad walk which led up toHhe church, and past it to ; the opposite gate; and it had all been sown with various hinds of trefoil, which bad shot np and flowered most beautifully. The new graves were to follow one af ter another in order from the end, bat the spot on each occasion was to be carefully smoothed over and sown again. No one could deny that on Sun days and holidays, when the people went to church, the change had given it a most cheerful and pleasant appearance. At the same time the clergyman, a» old man and clinging to old customs, who at first bad not been especially pleased with the ali teration, had become thoroughly delights ed with it', all the more because when he sat out like Philemon with fyis Baucis under the old linden trees at his back door, instead of the humps and mounds he bad a beautiful clean lawn to look ou|l upon; and--.which, moreover, Charlotte having secured the use of the spot to the parsonage, was no little convenience to his household.. Nbtwithstanding, however, many mem bers of the congregation hail been dis pleased that the means of marking the spots where their f >refathers rested had been removed, and all memorials of them thereby obliterated. H >wever well pre served the monuments might be, they could only show who had been burled, but not where be hid been buried, and the where, as many maintained, was eve- rything Of this opinion was a family in the neighborhood, who for many yeans had btfen in possession of a considerable vault for a general resting place of themselves and their delations, and in consequence had settled a small annual sum for the use of the church. And now this young lawyer had been sent to cancel this settle ment, and to stfhw that his client did not intend to pay it any more, because the condition under which it had been hith erto made had not been observed by the other parly, and no regard had been paid to objection and remonstrance. Char lotte, who had been the originator of the alteration berseK, chose to speak to the yoimg man who, In a "decid ed thopgh not a violent manner, laid down the grounds on which bis client pro ceeded, and gave occasion ia what he said for much serious reflection. “You see,” he said; after a slight intro duction, in which he sought to justify his peremptoriness; “you see, it is right for the lowest as well as for the highest to mark the spot which hoi is those who are dearest to hi a. The poorest peasant who buries a chill, finds it s .me consola tion to plant a light wooden cross upon the grave, an 1 hang a gailand upon it. to keep alive the memorial, at least as long as the sorro.v remains ; although such m mark, like the mourning, vi.l pass away with ti ue.' Thrge better off ch»nge the cross wf wood >nto iron, and fix it down _ and guard it in various wav s; and here *v ' we have endurance fdr many years. But because this' too will sink at last and be come invisible, those who aw able to bear the expense see nothing fitter than to raise a stone which shall prpmise to en- dure for generations, and which can be restored and be made fresh again by pos- terity. YeV thlS'stone U uat-whlch at tragus; if 'Is that which !*--contained beneath it. which is entrusua, wherejit statfds, to the earth, tt.is notvthe memo rial so much of which 'we speak, as of the person himself; not of .what once was, but of what. Is._ Far far more closely, can T embrace some dear depart ed one in the mound: whiob-risea over his bed, than inamonumental writing which only tells ns that once he was. In itself, indeed, it is but little; but around it, as around a central mark, the wife, the hus* band, the kinsman, the friend, after their departure, shall gather in again; and the living shall have the tight to keep far off all strangers, and evil-wishers from the side of the dear one who is sleeping there. f “And, therefore, I hold it quite fair and fitting that my principal shall withdraw his grant to you. It is, indeed, -■ but too reasonable that be should do it, for the members of his family are ijnored in a way for which no compensation could be even proposed. They are depiived of the sad sweet feelings of laying offerings j on the remains of their dead, and of. the one comforts in their sorrow- of one day lying down at their side. 1 * “The matter is not of that importance,” Charlotte answered, “that we should dis quiet ourselves about it with the vexa tion of a law-suit. I regret so little what T have dune, that I will indemnify the cbnrch for what it loses through you. Only I must confess candidly to yon your arguments have not convinced me ; the pure feeling of an universal equality at last, after death, seems to me more com posing than this hard determined persist ance in onr personalities and in the con ditions [and circumstance ■of our Uvea. What do yon say to il ?” she added, turn ing to the Architect. “It is not for me,” he replied, “either to argue or attempt to judge in such a case. Let me venture, however, to say what my own art and my own habits of thinking suggest to me. Since we are no longer so happy as to be able to press to our breasts the in-nrned remains of those we have loved, since we are neither wealthy enough, nor of cheeifnl heart enongbt to preserve them nndecayed in large elaborate sarcophagi; since, indeed, we cannot even find phee any more for ourselves and oars in the churches, and are banished ont into the open air, we all, I thing, /ought to approve the method wfalicb you, my gracious lady, have Intro duced. If the of a common congregation are laid out side by side, they are resting by the side of, and among their kindred ; and, if the earth be once to receive us all, 1 can find nothing more □atdral nr desirable than that the mounds l which, if they are thrown up, are snre to sink slowly in again together, shonl-I be smoothed off at once, and the covering, which all bear alike, will press lighter upon each other.” “And is it all, is it all to pass away ” said Ottilie, “without one of re-' membrance, without anything to call back the past ?” “By no means,continued the Archi ted; “it is not from remembrance, it is from place that men should be set free. The architect, the sculptor, are highly in terested that men should look to their art—to their hand, for a continuance of their being; and therefore, I should wish to see well designed, well-executed mon uments; not sown up and dovyn by them selves at random, but erected all in a sin gle spot, where they can promise them s» Ives endurance. Inasmuch as even the good and the great are contented to sur render the privilege of resting, in person in the churches, ice may, at least, erect there or in some fair hall near the bury mg-place, either monnfnents or monu mental writings. A thousand forms might be sucgested for them, and a thousand or ments with which they might be decora ted:” “If the artists are so rich,” replied ; Chari nte, "then l&U me Inw it is that i they are never able to escape from little j obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns tor ashes. | Instead of your thousand forms of which . you boast, I have never seen anything but j a thousand repetitions.” 1 “It is very generally so with us,” re- j loaned the Architect, "but it is not uni- 1 versa!; and very likely the right taste ! and the proper application 6f it may be i a peculiar art. In this case especially we ; have this great difficulty, that the monu- j meat must be cheerful and yet comment | orate a solemn subject; while its matter) is melancholy, it must not itself: be mel- i ancholy. As regards designs for monu-1 ments of all kinds, I have collected num- ) bcrs of them, and will take some oppor- i tunity of showing them to you; but at all times the fairest memorial of a man re mains some likeness of himself. This, bet ter than/Snything else, will give a notion j of what he was; it is the best text for many or for few notes, only it ought to be made when he is at his best age. and that it generally neglected; no one thinks of preserving forms while they are alive, and if it is done ot all, it is dr ne careless ly and incompletely ; and then comes death; a cast is taken swiftly off the face; this mask is set upon a block of stone, and that is called a bust. 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